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So Is Jesus a Shepherd or a Gate?

I’m reading through John 10 for the day. My recollection of the chapter title (“The Good Shepherd and His Sheep”, NIV) is that the primary metaphor here is that Jesus is always the good shepherd. But the text here also says, twice, that Jesus is the gate. The Good Shepherd and His Sheep 10 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The…

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The Idol of Productivity

What Is An Idol? Productivity is an idol. In the biblical sense, an idol is something that people worship or center their lives around other than God. In America, we have many idols: individualism, wealth, work (to name a few). We look up to those values. We strive for them. We can orient our whole lives around these ideals. In the pop culture sense, idols are people that we look up to or associate with success. There is an entire reality TV show named “American Idol” where singers compete for stardom. “Roger Federer or Serena Williams is my tennis idol,”…

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Why Did I Commit To This Church?

Why should you commit to a church? What’s the point in staying? What do you do when you are unhappy or unsatisfied with the church community you are a part of, or there are real problems that have become evident? Laura and I were chatting about this the other day and realized that this is a topic deeply important for a lot of us Asian American Christians. There is a lot of pain, frustration, and sometimes angst around finding and committing to a church. A lot of us might have experienced difficulties growing up in an immigrant Chinese or Korean…

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How to Go On a Prayer Walk

If you’ve ever been invited to go on a “prayer walk,” you’ll probably resonate with that slight feeling of hesitation. Maybe it’s feeling apprehensive about doing something you’re not used to doing. Or maybe you’re afraid it’ll be an awkward experience. Or maybe you just don’t know what a prayer walk is exactly. For whatever reason, the term “prayer walk” feels a little uncomfortable for most of us, and I wanted to share a few thoughts from my own experience of it last night with my church small group. What Is a Prayer Walk? I’ve concluded from my two times…

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Dear David: An eBook for Seekers

I have a friend named David, who six years ago, asked me why I believed in Christianity: “Why are there so many religions in the world?” “Is religion just made up?” “What makes Christianity different from all the other religions?” He had been questioning and soul-searching for some time, reading books like More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell andThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, among other Christian books. He had talked to Jewish and Hindu friends in order to learn more about their faiths. “I’ve encountered many rich cultures and wise teachings behind all these different religions, but the…

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Newlywed Diary Part III: The “Secret” to a Good Marriage

I don’t actually have the secret to a good marriage. For someone who has only been married for 4 months, I’ve only just begun to figure this mystery out. I’ve been asked, “how’s marriage?” enough times that I usually come up with a different answer each time. But there is one “secret” that I’ve learned recently that I think will be consistent lesson to apply to marriage, work, and life. That observation is: change is slow, but change also compounds. I first noticed this when I was trying to describe how I’ve been feeling to my friends who would ask…

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Takeaways From The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill

I have to admit, I didn’t know anything about Mars Hill Church or Mark Driscoll before listening to “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hills“, a podcast production by Christianity Today. And it is good storytelling—dramatic, sad, hopeful, and thought-provoking all at the same time. It narrates the arc centered around Mark Driscoll, one of the pastors and founders to Mars Hill Church in Seattle. It details how his charismatic personality and strong vision grew the church to megachurch status but simultaneously contributed to its collapse in 2014. It explores themes of leadership abuse, the dangers of Christian “celebrity” pastors,…

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Zoom Is Killing My Attention Span at Work

Zoom has really killed my attention span at work this past year. That plus working remotely has been the one-two punch that has diminished my ability to focus to an all-time low. But should I really be surprised? I mean, even the name itself suggests speediness in moving from one thing to the next. How has this sort of virtual connection been shaping the way I see myself, others, and especially God in the context of my work? A Shortened Attention Span All I want to do when I’m on a Zoom meeting is to zoom off of it. I…

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Lessons Learned as a Newlywed

Marriage can be hard, but it’s also a learning journey—one that I am happy to be on! I am super honored that Tim and Olive Chan let me guest post on their blog: “What We Are Learning in Our 0th Year of Marriage,” a reflection on some of the lessons Eve and I have been learning together as a newlywed couple. These were the four lessons learned as newlyweds in our “0th” year (a little more than three months at the time of this writing!): Learning to love someone in the way they want to be loved Making sex a…

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Engaging the Asian American Community: TikTok and Podcasting

This post is purely a shout-out to some of my friends. One of the things I aspired for this blog was to generate or spark conversation. And one of the things I believe in passionately in is the simple act of sharing stories within the Asian American community. There’s a lot of value to exposing yourself to different perspectives and intentionally learning about the experiences of others, which I admit that I don’t do enough of myself. I was listening to my friends’ podcast the other day (below) and was reminded of how nice it is to simply hear someone…

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